Shepherds, I have lost my waist! Have you seen my body?... mb-height 7002 This cartoon accompanies a poem

This cartoon accompanies a poem of the same name in which Punch puts forward the view that an artisan of the future must needs learn a craft and develop skills that will stand him in good stead

" A detailed description of earthquake damage to the building appears in Mallet's 1862 Report

Pringle House

and designed by Gioacchino Colombo

Shepherds, I have lost my waist! Have you seen my body?... mb-height 7002 This cartoon accompanies a poem'Shepherds, I have lost my waist! Have you seen my body? Sacrificed to modern taste, I'm quite a hoddy doddy!'', 1795. A satire on the unflattering fashions of the day. A hoddy doddy meant all arse and no body; a short clumsy person. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).